Introduction: framing resilience research

Resilience has grown in popularity, interest and application in a wide variety of scholarly and practitioner domains. This Handbook samples resilience scholars who are conceptualizing and exploring various ways to enliven and embed resilience in theory and practice. Contributors to this volume represent an international group of scholars who offer new and updated perspectives. Some propose new contexts for resilience, while others combine theoretical frames to bring new insights to the field, and still others offer perspectives on the practice of resilience. Overall, we recognize the imperative to articulate conceptual underpinnings with the hope of bringing more clarity to the theory and practice of resilience.